Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Positive Youth Development

Jonathan F. Zaff, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Center for Promise, the research institute of America's Promise Alliance housed at Boston University's School of Education. He leads research initiatives that examine how to create the conditions so that all youth can thrive academically, socially, and civically.Elizabeth Pufall Jones, Ph.D., is a Qualitative Research Scientist at the Center for Promise at Boston University's School of Education. Her research focuses on the processes and contexts associated with a multicultural individual's navigation and negotiation of the multiple cultural worlds in which they live.Alice E. Donlan, Ph.D., is a Quantitative Research Scientist for the Center for Promise. Her research focuses on adolescent social development and peer influences in school, with the goal of understanding how supportive relationships are built, and how those relationships promote positive youth development. Sara Anderson, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Children in the U.S. at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. She is the lead analyst on the long-term follow up of the Tulsa pre-K study. Her research interests include pre-K, residential mobility, and neighborhood effects.